> I have no expectation that continuum will follow any of these paths, > and in most cases am not even sure what that would mean, BUT just > because I think it is useful to have a wide variety of concrete > examples to draw on -- data is good! -- there actually are *lots* of > examples of "community revolts" wresting projects from their original > founders, in a variety of corporate and non-corporate contexts. Some > examples include the nodejs->iojs fork and merge (which was about > wresting control of the project from the founding company), the > gcc->egcs fork and merge (which removed RMS's control over day-to-day > running of the project), the openoffice->libreoffice fork, the > xfree86->x.org fork (where the original core team decided to change > the license and all the developers left), the mambo->joomla fork, the > xchat->hexchat fork (triggered partially by people's annoyance at the > original developer for trying to monetize the project), ... Along > somewhat similar lines, there's also the fraught history of Qt and > Trolltech and the conflicts between the community and commercial > interests there.
All of there are exactly the opposite of what I asked about, and what was suggested as the threat: an original founder and corporate interest wresting control from the community. Bryan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
